I feel it is a mistake to utterly destroy a man's image before he is even judged.

It's an ideology that is used in civilized law to lessen the chance of convicting innocents by shifting the burden of researching the crime onto the state. Most humans probably do the opposite and won't accept a person as innocent until he himself has proven himself as such.

OT: Pretty retarded to link it to WoW, but just think...all those Hardcore WoW players people idolize could be real creeps irl. Goes to show you don't truly know someone I guess.

Millions of people in WoW.. i wouldn't be surprised if there was a couple of murderers who play this game, so a sex crime isn't really that big of a deal in the big picture. It shouldn't even have been linked to WoW since his crime has nothing to do with the game...

This sounds as stupid as the following:
- Former Facebook-user turns into celebrity stalker.
- Former Twitter-user becomes violent protester.

Next thing you know, games are going to be blamed for causing every crime:
- Former GTA player runs red light and kills 5 people in accident.
- Former Sims player locks up a family in a house and starts to play with them.

Games aren't the reason for everything. How would the game-haters explain similar murders being commited before games even existed? Or before movies existed? Hell, how do you explain the massive battles throughout history, torture, witchhunts? Yea, you can't, because it's all completely unrelated to games and movies. It's human nature.

I must have killed so many people/creatures in games that if I were to turn that into real-life kills, I'd be able to kill the world's population twice. Does that make me the next Hitler? No.

Why the fuck is anything bad that someone did who played WoW connected to their gaming in the news? I never see "guy who enjoys basketball/cycling/playing guitar busted for sex crimes". Likewise, I never see, "WoW player gets Physics Ph.D.!".

As for the connection between charging someone and gaming.. what the hell does gaming have to do with the fact that he was charged? They are two completely unrelated events. As for the media looking at it, they hit him for being active on youtube, WoW, and myspace. I don't even see much of anything about his gamer habits apart from he spent a lot of time on it.

“A fool is not a person who does not know something. Rather, a fool is a person who is given information but who chooses to ignore what he is given based on how he wants things to be, rather than how things are."

Sir Robin, the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot.
Who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor.
Who had almost stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol.
And who had personally wet himself, at the Battle of Badon Hill.